As part of my vocation within a monastery complex for 25 years I have been deeply
engaged in the art of publishingfrom running a Heidelburg Press to book
and magazine design to being a lead designer/developer for websites that involved
publishing, education, nonprofit, history,
artifacts and ecommerce.

The
exacting and creative demands of graphic design translate very well into web designwhere
in a limited space the designer needs to create elements that are aesthetic, unique,
psychologically attractive to the site's natural or broad audience, easy and intuitive
to navigate, very functional and engineered to rank high on Google, Yahoo! and
other search engines.

My
web design tools include expert use of Dreamweaver,
Flash, Javascript, HTML, DHTML, CSS, and the creation of e-commerce websites.
I also write content for many of my web clients.

In
graphic design, I am expert in Quark Express, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
and Strata Studio Pro. Over years of cultivating an expertise in color scanning
I have simultaneously realized a rare fluency in CMYK color correction in the
Photoshop environment. Combining images and typography and space is to me an art
that needs to be approached with the philosophical spirit of the artist: create
a piece that has both inherent beauty and catalyzing information, a piece that
may have an edge in design, but also carries a meaningful message. My repertoire
includes book, booklet, magazine, newspaper, brochure, direct mail, poster, newsletter,
web page and sign design.

Please select from the menu below. The following images represent a range of my
design approaches.

Web
design philosophy: Work closely with each client to craft an image-and-text look
that suits their personal interests, services or products while drawing on design
approaches that I can introduce them to, or that they have seen elsewhere and
wish to incorporate into their site. Develop a look that excites and appeals to
a certain audience or demographic, or broaden out for a more eclectic pallet of
imagery and background space. Avoid the template look. It is very recognizable.
Visitors like innovation, but they like it fast loading. I specialize in sites
that load fast on all browsers, yet, if desired, integrate some dynamic features
(using Flash): motion and fades of images and/or words. Navigation strategy is
crucial, and I give each client all of my experience in creating navigation across
the pages that is natural and sensible. Pages are well cross-linked to facilitate
high search engine ranking. As well, I apply the latest techniques to building
search engine ranking optimization into each site.